jester43

not as good as playoff hockey, but i still envy you...have fun, and go suns.

i think he'll look awesome for about 8 games.

good one! actually it's the only way somebody can fit in those cars. boris wanted to be an open wheel racer, but he had to give it up once he graduated from formula fords because at 6'5", he could not fit in the cars. instead, in addition to nascar, he does this! http://www.stg.thatsracin.com/mld/thatsrac.../printstory.jsp

nfl network...it aired from 8-8:30 tonight and i think there is a rebroadcast later tonight. catch it if you can!

i'd seen it discussed here but never seen it myself till just now...just an awesome portrait of the guy. what can u say?? as a coach myself, i am HUMBLED!

i've never raced, but i suspect it depends on the form of racing and the specs of the car. but the bottom line is that bigtime racing is the consummate team sport...there are SO many people involved in the production and racing of a major league (f-1, irl, nascar, world of outlaw sprinter, etc...)racecar, and anyone of them can screw things up for the entire operation if they don't do their job right....of course it is the driver who winds up looking bad. and yes some drivers are better than others, but it is pretty tough for people (including me) not closely involved with the teams to discern who the super talents are just from watching races on tv. drivers have to have unbelievable nerves, reflexes, hand/eye, etc., but also a lot of stamina and concentration. i don't care if people want to call them athletes or not, but what they do is incredibly difficult. another huge factor, believe it or not, is experience in the car. boris said is a friend of mine, and when he drove in the nascar truck series he said the hardent thing was learining the characteristics of the truck and communicating them back to the team so they could make the right adjustments. drivers learn to do this with experience. he has gotten gradually better better at it over the years and was rewarded this season with a 13-race deal as teammate to joe nemecheck and scott riggs.

i have been following motorsports for almost as long as i've followed the bills, and she is the closest thing to the real deal we've ever seen in a female driver. i've never been particualrly for or against them (one of the few autographs i own is janet guthrie's sig. on a nascar program from pocono in '79), but the one thing you can't deny is that most female drivers in big time motorsports have largely been crashes waiting to happen. i watched the IRL race from japan a couple weeks back, and that was not the impression i got of patrick. also, one thing i really liked was when she got out of the car freaking PISSED at herself that she didn't get the pole. 4th was a really nice drive for a rookie but she was really pissed at herself for a tiny bobble on the first turn of the first lap that cost her a shot at the pole. i've coached women athletes who expected a lot of hemselves like that, and one thing i can say about them is that they always get fast- because they will not settle for anything less. i think this kid is the same way, and she actually has the equipment to back it up. now we just have to see if she is strong enough to hold the car down for 200 laps...that is the problem with women racers, they basically aren't strong enough to resist the Gs for hour after hour in a 500 mile race. if she can do that, i will be impressed. good luck to her...she is definitely the kind of kid i would want on my team.

yeah that would have been my guess...

no.

we swept philly? cool.

he probably won't even make the team.

this kid better be able to play...

damn that is a funny idea...i can't imagine spending the cash on one, but if i ever saw one i would laugh out loud.

hello. i am undersized (150lb), white DE who is extremely high-motor: while at temple, i led my intramural touch football team in sacks in 1983. i'm 39, but it is a "young" 39, and i think i can still bring it. any budding agents out there who think they can get TD to invite me to camp? a couple months in the weightroom and i'm sure i can put on at least 10lb. i always wanted to play for the bills.

yes, thanks. at 73, the point of sports is not winning, it's DOING.

i have been coaching for track and xc for 18 years. i coached wrestling for 5 and soccer for 1. i loved all of them but soccer. imo, it is something about team sports that brings out the worst in parents. track and xc parents are the best. wrestling parents were very supportive also. but for some reason when a kid goes from an individual to a team sport, the parents seem to trade their brains in. having said that, a couple points: 1. were you made aware of the conflict ahead of time? if so ( though it sounds like you weren't), and if you agreed to let them run in the meet, you shouldn't be benching anyone. i am a college coach at a pretty tough academic school, and we are constantly dealing with academic conflicts. the whole deal is, when you know there will be a conflict, you make an arrangement ahead of time and you stick to it. but this situation sounds like they just showed up late though, without letting you know ahead of time that they would be late. for that they should be benched. 2. your story is one of the reasons i hate soccer: why the fug do under-13 kids need to be in an organized soccer league in the spring?! you probably know this, and please do not take it personally, but i gotta say...coaches of other sports hate soccer, because some of the coaches get this death grip on the athletes from a very young age and convince the kids and parents that if they are not playing year-round in organized "select" leagues and such, they will never cut it when they get older. it's bull sh--. they ought to be running in track meets! ...or playing softball or whatever. a little kid should be trying different things, and not be focused on one sport year round. anyway, my personal prejudices aside , you sound like you care, so you shouldn't quit coaching. there are not enough good youth coaches out there. the local catholic school in carlisle has a youth track club that has 135 friggin kids in it and it is a sight to behold...ten volunteer coaches, and they do a fantastic job with those kids...i always say there is a special place in heaven saved for good youth sports coaches. maybe you need to give up coaching these uber-special "selects" and find a less competitive environment where the kids aren't being pushed into doing multiple sports at the same time (always a bad idea anyway) by their crazy ass living-vicariously-through-their-kids parents!

how is encouraging kids to eat in a healthy way killing our society?

ron mexico has been my porn star name for years...i was going to sue him for stealing it, but then i realized this scandal is going to make me rich.

wow...now that's devotion. awesome.

i have a cousin who is hot and single...have i been missing out on something?

how could anyone who wasn't a bills fan pick jp over ben? the guy was the toast of the nfl last year!

i'm not sure how many of your ideas i like, but i like your premise. but any changes of this type are 100% dependent on the talent and creativity of the coaching staff, so we'll see what they can pull off. i do think that league-wide, we're about to start seeing a lot more players changing positions for the reasons you mentioned.

i know exactly where that is. thanks!

can you give some idea of where the store is? i get down that way from time to time...

correct. that's all you need to do.